Reproduction and Reproduction

Thresholds

This is not really about speed. It is rather about touch. A slow and gentle touch may be called a caress, if at high speed and with great force, an impact. Speed and force. Perhaps we could say it is about velocity It may also be about the promiscuity of ideas. If Hannah Arendt is to be believed, then Walter Benjamin desired to produce "a work consisting entirely of quotations, one that was mounted so masterfully that it could dispense with any accompanying text, "which" may strike one as whimsical in the extreme and self-destructive to boot, but it was not, any more than were the contemporaneous surrealistic experiments which arose from similar impulses. To the extent that an accompanying text by the author proved unavoidable, it was a matter of fashioning it in such a way as to preserve" the intention of such Investigations," namely " to plumb the depths of language and thought... by drilling rather than excavating"(briefe1, 3291, so as not to ruin everything with explanations that seek to provide a causal or systematic connection." While this piece is largely a concatenation of quotes, orchestrating a collision between ideas, some of which may glance off the surface of one another, others which may penetrate one another a little more deeply. Chronology The Lives of the Artists BALLARD, J.G. in full JAMES GRAHAM BALLARD (J). Nov. 15, 1930. Shanghai. China), British author of science fiction set in ecologically unbalanced landscapes caused by decadent technological excess.

in 'Encyclopedia of Political Thought' edited by Michael T. Gibbons, Diana Coole, Elisabeth Ellis and Kennan Ferguson. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.

Women's Review of Books, 2019

This is a review of two graphic memoirs: This Woman’s Work by Julie Delporte, and Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisely (book review). See if your library has a subscription; if it doesn't, you can email me for a copy of this or any of my WRB reviews.

Charles Estienne's De la Dissection des parties du corps humain presents the uterus not only as a site of generation and life, but also putrefaction and death. Estienne first writes about the uterus as a surgical site where life and death converge and must be separated, and then as an anatomical site where pain and pleasure are divided because of Galenic theories about the uterus that involve generation and corruption. In spite of frequent attempts to visually quarantine the uterus from the rest of the body with a printed inset, these surgical and anatomical separations between life and death are often clearer in the texts than in the images, which are as much about invisibility as visibility.

Early Science and Medicine

Reproduction. Antiquity to the Present Day is an ambitious book arising from the University of Cambridge's "Generation and Reproduction Group". Its forty three chapters are divided into five parts-I. Inventing Generation, II. Generation Reborn and Reformed, III.

Journal of Medical Humanities, 2007

Ron Harris captured the popular imagination in October 1999 with a website where he auctioned off the ova of fashion models to the highest bidder. This article treats the controversy surrounding Harris' site within a dual frame of critical theory's approach to reproduction and a folkloristic approach to discourse. The website fuses traditional narrative motifs and structures with the logic of advertising, seventies television, family-values rhetoric, and the fertility industry. I argue that the great attraction of ronsangels.com is that it put into relief the intervention of mechanical reproduction in human fertility together with the state of genetics at the turn of the 21st century. The result is not only a disconcerting aestheticization and commodification of biological reproduction, but also the biological reproduction of a particular aesthetic and moral code-a generation of reality by model.

Third Text, 2017

Marina Vishmidt offers a careful and illuminating account of the histories of the debates on social reproduction in her article included here. Beth Capper then expands on Vishmidt's account, attending to the racialised division of labour specifically in relation to the perspective of Black Women for Wages for Housework.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2017

I have not the least doubt, for functional and behavioural traits as well… [that] the female realizes the promise of the species rather more fully than the male.' -A. Montagu

1997

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ® GRADUATE COLLEGE As members of the Final Examination Committee, we certify that we have read the dissertation prepared by Barbara Jean Hall entitled "On Reproduction: Rights, Responsibilities and Males" and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree of